Sudan FM heads to Washington to meet US Bush
Sept 9, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Minister of Foreign Affairs Lam Akol leaved Saturday evening for Washington on an official visit during which he will convey a message from President Omer al-Bashir to US President George Bush.
Bashir’s message comes in reply to Bush’s message conveyed by US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer during her recent visit to Sudan at the end of August.
Frazer, had flown to Khartoum to convince Sudan to agree to the deployment of more than 20,000 U.N. troops and police in Darfur to take over from a struggling African Union mission there.
It is expected that Sudan would reiterated his proposal of the deployment of Sudanese army with former rebels who signed the Darfur Peace Agreement.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs would proceed from Washington to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the ministerial meeting of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM), which is to be convened there on September 13-14, prior to the summit conference of the movement on September 15-16.
(ST)